Latin America

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Latin America is a region that is very distant from China both in geographical and strategic terms. The relationship between the two areas, however, has become more important in the 1990s, and Central America and the Caribbean in particular is an area of intense rivalry between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan for diplomatic recognition (Taiwan Question).

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, about 300,000 Chinese emigrated to various countries throughout Latin America, but have had relatively little political infl…